tnt-hunter
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- Location
- Mountain Maryland
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
With the recent nor’easter that hit the beach recently, this trip promised to be different. The storms may have exposed goodies or could have buried them or washed them out to sea, no way of knowing until you get swingin.
OCEAN CITY
The beach was in bad shape. They had been using heavy equipment on the beach and there were deep ruts over a lot of the southern part of the beach. My usual spots were pretty dead and the main beach was very dead. In most parts there wasn’t even any trash so either everything washed out to sea or it has been buried. I found out there had been a recent festival and the heavy equipment damage was from the tear down. I watched a video of the storm the and water washed over the entire beach and probably washed a lot of the summer goodies away.
I spent 3.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 25 coins with a face value of $2.29, a vaping device, 2 pieces of cheapie jewelry, 2 fittings, a toy vehicle, a few tabs, some can slaw, whole aluminum cans and foil. Nothing noteworthy just a pitiful amount of gas money for this beach after a whole summer of visitors.
REHOBOTH BEACH
The day was rainy with lots of strong wind, a light steady rain blowing in my face making it hard to see out of my glasses. The beach was very dead so I moved to my spot off the beach and found a few things. I spent 3 hours swingin the CZ21 14 coins $1.80, 2 jewelry items, 9 pieces of WW2 ordinance, 3 alcohol miniature bottles with aluminum caps, no tabs, no foil. The miniatures and the ordinance were the only things I found in my 2 hours on the beach.
The ordinance is 20 mm traveling band from WW2.
BETHANY BEACH
In the spring when I was here there was very little beach left. At high tide the waves came right up to the dunes and there was no beach to be on. The storms washed over half of the dunes away. Now the beach is a decent sized area at high tide and huge at low tide. The dunes contained a lot of World War ll ordinance that ended up there during the beach restoration of 1999 when they were made. Detecting turned up a lot of ordinance and the occasional coin or piece of jewelry. You have to dig a lot of signals because you don’t know what will turn up. The first morning there were 2 other detectorists on the beach and they found a few coins, but mostly ordinance just like me. I helped them identify what they were finding. (I got my information from a local shop owner back in 1999. He had a friend in the weapons development business who knew what everything was.) I did some detecting off the beach as well and that is where most of the coins were found.
I spent 11.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 97 coins with a face value of $10.25, a vaping device, some cheapie jewelry items, a sinker, the end cap off something, a few tabs and lots of WW2 ordinance.
One of the pennies is a 1944 wheatie in good shape.
The first batch of ordinance includes five .50 caliber machine gun slugs. The open back on some indicates that they were tracer rounds. Traces were every fourth or fifth round to identify the path of the bullets at night. The disks on the left are part of a 40mm booster. The 11 pieces on the grid section are parts of mechanical detonators for the 40mm and 100mm shells. They were set to explode when the projectile traveled a certain distance.
The second batch has 4 pieces of 100mm traveling band and 94 pieces of 20mm traveling band. The proper name for these pieces is obturator. The projectiles were steel and did not engage the rifling in the barrel of the artillery piece. A brass band was placed close to the base of the projectile. The brass is softer and engages the rifling so the round will spin and be more accurate. One side of the obturator has a check pattern to allow it to break up more readily on detonation. The other side has a groove showing where it engaged the rifling.
The third batch is all 40mm obturator. 158 pieces in all. Over the years I have found quite a bit of this stuff and so I just recycle it. All the WW2 pieces except the .50 cal slugs are brass. This trip it adds up to 3.5 pounds. Brass is bringing over $3 a pound so an extra $9 or $10 for my gas.
All together I only found 17 tabs for my 5 mornings of detecting at all 3 beaches. Another indicator that things were not as good as normal.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I walked miles and miles in the parking lots while my wife shopped at the outlets and didn’t find anything. All the vending machines have been converted to CARD ONLY and coin returns are closed off so no change there either. They are really working hard at keeping the finders from finding.
The last day I did find a penny in the parking lot and 2 very worn dimes in the coinstar when I visited Wally World.
That night after dinner I was walking back into the hotel and in the space beside my truck was a piece of jewelry. It is a smashed quinceañera ring. It is 14k with tiny stones. Some are missing. I couldn’t find gold with my detector on this trip but I did find some with my eyes. A case of right place, right time. It weighs 1.1 grams so about $60 from my local dealer. You never know when the goodies are gonna turn up. You just have to keep looking.
Views of the damage to the dunes in Bethany.
I did see a couple of nice sunrises when it wasn’t rainy.
A dead horseshoe crab on the beach.
The town of Bethany put out their Halloween decorations while we were there. The skeletons are playing tug of war this year. Last year they were doing beach yoga. Someone has a good imagination.
Not a lot of goodies, but lots of good seafood. My wife only goes to shop and I’m only there for the detecting and the food. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
OCEAN CITY
The beach was in bad shape. They had been using heavy equipment on the beach and there were deep ruts over a lot of the southern part of the beach. My usual spots were pretty dead and the main beach was very dead. In most parts there wasn’t even any trash so either everything washed out to sea or it has been buried. I found out there had been a recent festival and the heavy equipment damage was from the tear down. I watched a video of the storm the and water washed over the entire beach and probably washed a lot of the summer goodies away.
I spent 3.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 25 coins with a face value of $2.29, a vaping device, 2 pieces of cheapie jewelry, 2 fittings, a toy vehicle, a few tabs, some can slaw, whole aluminum cans and foil. Nothing noteworthy just a pitiful amount of gas money for this beach after a whole summer of visitors.
REHOBOTH BEACH
The day was rainy with lots of strong wind, a light steady rain blowing in my face making it hard to see out of my glasses. The beach was very dead so I moved to my spot off the beach and found a few things. I spent 3 hours swingin the CZ21 14 coins $1.80, 2 jewelry items, 9 pieces of WW2 ordinance, 3 alcohol miniature bottles with aluminum caps, no tabs, no foil. The miniatures and the ordinance were the only things I found in my 2 hours on the beach.
The ordinance is 20 mm traveling band from WW2.
BETHANY BEACH
In the spring when I was here there was very little beach left. At high tide the waves came right up to the dunes and there was no beach to be on. The storms washed over half of the dunes away. Now the beach is a decent sized area at high tide and huge at low tide. The dunes contained a lot of World War ll ordinance that ended up there during the beach restoration of 1999 when they were made. Detecting turned up a lot of ordinance and the occasional coin or piece of jewelry. You have to dig a lot of signals because you don’t know what will turn up. The first morning there were 2 other detectorists on the beach and they found a few coins, but mostly ordinance just like me. I helped them identify what they were finding. (I got my information from a local shop owner back in 1999. He had a friend in the weapons development business who knew what everything was.) I did some detecting off the beach as well and that is where most of the coins were found.
I spent 11.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 97 coins with a face value of $10.25, a vaping device, some cheapie jewelry items, a sinker, the end cap off something, a few tabs and lots of WW2 ordinance.
One of the pennies is a 1944 wheatie in good shape.
The first batch of ordinance includes five .50 caliber machine gun slugs. The open back on some indicates that they were tracer rounds. Traces were every fourth or fifth round to identify the path of the bullets at night. The disks on the left are part of a 40mm booster. The 11 pieces on the grid section are parts of mechanical detonators for the 40mm and 100mm shells. They were set to explode when the projectile traveled a certain distance.
The second batch has 4 pieces of 100mm traveling band and 94 pieces of 20mm traveling band. The proper name for these pieces is obturator. The projectiles were steel and did not engage the rifling in the barrel of the artillery piece. A brass band was placed close to the base of the projectile. The brass is softer and engages the rifling so the round will spin and be more accurate. One side of the obturator has a check pattern to allow it to break up more readily on detonation. The other side has a groove showing where it engaged the rifling.
The third batch is all 40mm obturator. 158 pieces in all. Over the years I have found quite a bit of this stuff and so I just recycle it. All the WW2 pieces except the .50 cal slugs are brass. This trip it adds up to 3.5 pounds. Brass is bringing over $3 a pound so an extra $9 or $10 for my gas.
All together I only found 17 tabs for my 5 mornings of detecting at all 3 beaches. Another indicator that things were not as good as normal.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I walked miles and miles in the parking lots while my wife shopped at the outlets and didn’t find anything. All the vending machines have been converted to CARD ONLY and coin returns are closed off so no change there either. They are really working hard at keeping the finders from finding.
The last day I did find a penny in the parking lot and 2 very worn dimes in the coinstar when I visited Wally World.
That night after dinner I was walking back into the hotel and in the space beside my truck was a piece of jewelry. It is a smashed quinceañera ring. It is 14k with tiny stones. Some are missing. I couldn’t find gold with my detector on this trip but I did find some with my eyes. A case of right place, right time. It weighs 1.1 grams so about $60 from my local dealer. You never know when the goodies are gonna turn up. You just have to keep looking.
Views of the damage to the dunes in Bethany.
I did see a couple of nice sunrises when it wasn’t rainy.
A dead horseshoe crab on the beach.
The town of Bethany put out their Halloween decorations while we were there. The skeletons are playing tug of war this year. Last year they were doing beach yoga. Someone has a good imagination.
Not a lot of goodies, but lots of good seafood. My wife only goes to shop and I’m only there for the detecting and the food. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
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